Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
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Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
Just because you are not paranoid, it does not mean that they are not out to get you
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
My mum collects old brass things!...................see you later, got some detective work to do
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
Romany Rag and Bone man. Didnt know gold from brass...... Of course he didnt.
60 Years under a bed?????
I wonder who the burglary victim was, (now safely dead and gone no doubt).
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60 Years under a bed?????
I wonder who the burglary victim was, (now safely dead and gone no doubt).
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
I'll probably be the only person that doesn't believe his story .
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
I would say the estimate of value is very conservative. I'm surprised it's not going to be auctioned by Christie's or Sotheby's. Surely the British Museum will want to acquire it. If it goes for £1m plus, I won't be surprised!
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"Daa, wot do we do with the cup we conned out of that old gaje mollisher while selling her them pegs? We cant sell it cos everyone will know it was nicked. The Gavvers will be on us.
Keep it, give to one of the young uns to pass on. (along with the other gold bits). Make sure you keep it hidden out the way for a few years and then tell everyone I got it on me rounds and thought it was brass.
They'll be daft enough to believe that. Daft Gajes."
Keep it, give to one of the young uns to pass on. (along with the other gold bits). Make sure you keep it hidden out the way for a few years and then tell everyone I got it on me rounds and thought it was brass.
They'll be daft enough to believe that. Daft Gajes."
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
Cup used for airgun target practice expected to realise $1,000,000 at auction!
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a Taunton scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch some £500,000 ($1,000,000) at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.
Owner John Webber says his grandfather gave him the 5.5-inch (14-centimetre) high mug to play with when he was a child, back in 1945.
He assumed the golden cup, which is decorated with the heads of two women facing in opposite directions, their foreheads garlanded with two knotted snakes, was made from brass.
But he decided to get it valued when he was moving house last year and was told it was actually a rare piece of ancient Persian treasure, beaten out of a single sheet of gold hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
Experts said the method of manufacture and the composition of the gold was "consistent with Achaemenid gold and gold smithing" dating back to the third or fourth century BC.
The Achaemenid Empire, the first of the Persian empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran, was wiped out by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
Auction house Duke's, in Dorchester, south-west England, will put the cup under the hammer on June 5, with an estimate of 500,000 pounds.
Webber, 70, said that his grandfather had a "good eye" for antiques and picked up "all sorts" as he plied his trade in the town of Taunton in south-west England.
"Heaven knows where he got this, he never said," he added, revealing that as a child, he used the cup for target practice with his air gun!
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or smuggled out of Tunisia or morrocco ?
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by a Taunton scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch some £500,000 ($1,000,000) at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.
Owner John Webber says his grandfather gave him the 5.5-inch (14-centimetre) high mug to play with when he was a child, back in 1945.
He assumed the golden cup, which is decorated with the heads of two women facing in opposite directions, their foreheads garlanded with two knotted snakes, was made from brass.
But he decided to get it valued when he was moving house last year and was told it was actually a rare piece of ancient Persian treasure, beaten out of a single sheet of gold hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
Experts said the method of manufacture and the composition of the gold was "consistent with Achaemenid gold and gold smithing" dating back to the third or fourth century BC.
The Achaemenid Empire, the first of the Persian empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran, was wiped out by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
Auction house Duke's, in Dorchester, south-west England, will put the cup under the hammer on June 5, with an estimate of 500,000 pounds.
Webber, 70, said that his grandfather had a "good eye" for antiques and picked up "all sorts" as he plied his trade in the town of Taunton in south-west England.
"Heaven knows where he got this, he never said," he added, revealing that as a child, he used the cup for target practice with his air gun!
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or smuggled out of Tunisia or morrocco ?
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
It went today for £50,000. Glad I didn't put in a £1m bid! :oops: :oops: :oops:Headmaster wrote:I would say the estimate of value is very conservative. I'm surprised it's not going to be auctioned by Christie's or Sotheby's. Surely the British Museum will want to acquire it. If it goes for £1m plus, I won't be surprised!
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
The Cups probably been knocked out from the Father & Son fakers quite recently :lol: :lol:
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
In todays news it sold for £50k along with a gold roman spoon £5k and another artifact £1k allegedly all from his grandad Why sell at some provincial action house where it will attract a lower price and not Christies or Sotherby's, something really does not add up.
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
cant comment ! he'd probably sue me for slander !
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Re: Bit of tat brass turns into Cup of Gold
Was,nt much of an airgun he used on it, maybe it went so low because now its a colander